Amanuensis Monday -- 1788 Mortgage Release of Daniel Campbell to Dirck Lefferts For Land in Ballstown, Albany County, New York That George Wakeman Had Mortgaged In 1772

This week's document for transcription is the 1788 Mortgage Release of Daniel Campbell to Dirck Lefferts for land in Ballstown, Albany County, New York that George Wakeman mortgaged to Daniel Campbell in 1772 for 120 pounds, to be paid by 1 January 1789.

Albany County, New York, Mortgages 1785-1791:  pages 56-57, image 379 of 569]:

The transcription of this Mortgage Release is (starting on page 56 at the top of the page) with the assistance of FamilySearch Full-Text Search:

[Page 56 starting at the top of the left-hand page of the image]:

THIS INDENTURE made the nineteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one tho

thousand seven hundred and eighty eight BETWEEN DANIEL CAMPBELL of

Schonectady in the 

County of Albany of the one part and DIRCK LEFFERTS of the City of New York of the one 

part WHEREAS George Wakeman of Ballston in the said County in and by indentures of 

lease and release respectively bearing date the twenty seventh and twenty eight days of 

October in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy four for securing the payment 

of one hundred and twenty pounds lawful money of New York then due and owing to the said Daniel Campbell and the interest which might become due thereon did grant bargain and 

sell , release , convey and confirm by way of mortgage unto the said Daniel Campbell his 

heirs and assigns subject nevertheless to a proviso in the same Indenture of release con-

 tained and that the same should be void and of none effect upon the payment of the said 

one hundred and twenty pounds and interest on the first day of January then next follow-

ing after the date of the said indentures of lease and release the right title , interest 

possession , lands and tenements therein hereinafter particularly mentioned and described.

Now This Indenture WITNESSETH That the said Daniel Campbell for and in consideration of 

the sum of two hundred pounds lawful money of New York to him in hand paid by the said

Dirck lefferts the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged and from which he doth release 

and discharge the said Dirck Lefferts his heirs & assigns by these presents hath granted 

bargained, sold, aliened, released, dischained and confirmed and by these presents doth gran 

bargain  sell, alien, release, disclaim and confirm unto the said Dirck lefferts in his act-

ual possession now being and to his heirs and assigns forever, all the estate, right, tit-

le, interest, property, claim and demand in law or equity of in

[page 57]

and to a certain piece or parcel of land in Ballstown in the County of Albany containing seven 

hundred and fifty acres being part of one thousand and six acres of land granted

and released 

by indenture executed by the said Dirck Lefferts bearing date the fifth day of February one thousand seven hundred and seventy two and granted to Abel Ginnings and said George Wakeman. 

          Together with the rights, members and appurtenances thereto belonging or in anywise appertaining and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, thereof. To have and to 

hold the estate aforesaid into the said Dirck lefferts his heirs and assigns to the only 

proper use , benefit and behoof of the said Dirck Lefferts his heirs and assigns forever. 

          IN WITNESS WHEROF the parties to these presents have hereunto interchangeably set 

their hands and seals the day and year first above written. 

Sealed and delivered in the presence of                         Daniel Campbell . L. S.

Corns Vandenbergh , Wm. Van Ingen 

          Be it remembered that on the twenty eight day of March in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight before me John Sloss Hobart one of the Judges of the Supreme 

Court of this State of New York came William Van Ingen one of the subscribing witnesses to 

the execution of the within written indenture who made oath that Daniel Campbell therein named 

did seal and deliver the same as his voluntary act and deed for the uses therein mentioned 

in presence of Cornelius Vandenbergh and the deponent who severally signed their names as

wit-

nesses thereto in presence of each other and I having inspected the said Indenture and found no alterations there in ecept an erasure between the words six and acres in the Fifth line room the bottom of the second page and the letters said written over the first line of 

the third page do allow it recorded.            Jno. Sloss Hobart

          I do hereby certify the aforegoing to be a true copy of the original examined and

compared with the same the 3d day of November 1788.

                                                              Pr. Mat Visscher, Clk.

                                                   .

The source citation for this mortgage record is:

"Albany County, New York, United States records," deed of Daniel Campbell to Dirck Lefferts, executed 19 March 1788 recorded 3 November 1788; imaged, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9WC-6C57?view=fullText : accessed Jan 2, 2026), Image Group Number: 007138186, "Albany, Mortgages, 1785-1791," pages 56-57, image 379 of 569; New York. County Court (Albany County).

This mortgage release is for Dirck Lefferts to pay Daniel Campbell 200 pounds for the 750 acres that George Wakeman of Ballstown, Albany County, New York agreed to pay Daniel Campbell 120 pounds principal plus interest in current money of New York Province on 5 February 1772.  The real estate was part of the 1,006 acres that George Wakeman had bought with a mortgage deed from Dirck Lefferts in 1772.  Apparently, George Wakeman defaulted on his payment to Daniel Campbell in 1776 because Campbell is now selling the land to Dirck Lefferts. 

George Wakeman (1740-1815) was born before 1 June 1740 in Fairfield, Connecticut, the son of Samuel and Elizabeth (--?--) Wakeman. He married Sarah Hill (1742-1832) on 17 June 1762 in Fairfield, Connecticut.  George Wakeman died before 2 January 1815 in Wayne township, Ashtabula County, Ohio.

George and Sarah (Hill) Wakeman are my 6th great-grandparents through their daughter Hannah Wakeman (1763-1814) who married Thomas Partridge (1758-1828) in New York on  2 October 1785.  

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"A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."

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